Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula the inverse of TBSS results

2013-04-04 Thread Sean Hatton
Hi Anastasia, An independent T-test on the aseg.stats WM-Hypointensties (SegId 77) showed that the mean WM hypointensities volume of the patient group (1378.8mm3, SD 650mm3) did not significantly differ from the controls (1120.8mm3, SD 372mm3; p=.111). A Pearson and Spearman correlation

[Freesurfer] Fwd: Error with experimental design using FSGD

2013-04-04 Thread Joshua deSouza
Hello Sir/Madam, I am currently running a statistical test using the FSGD method. I am encountering a problem in relation to the creation of the glmdir folder when I run the mri_glmfit function. I recieve an ERROR message that tells me that the design matrix (automatically generated) is ill

Re: [Freesurfer] Fw: Making cuts using tksurfer

2013-04-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Anupa it's pretty hard to figure anything out from your images. What is wrong with using the cutting plane tool? You specify 3 points to define the plane, then a 4th to specify which side you want to keep cheers Bruce On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Anupa AV wrote: - Forwarded Message -

Re: [Freesurfer] Doubt in the no. of dicom images

2013-04-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
this is for the same acquisition? You should definitely try to avoid that as it will change the SNR. Bruce On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Anupa AV wrote: Dear All, I use Philips Achieva 3T scanner for the MRI study. When I open the Dicom folder, (say for MPR ) the no. of items I can see is 222

[Freesurfer] cortical thickness normalization

2013-04-04 Thread stdp82
Hi list, I'm reading a lot of post on this list about cortical thickness normalization. I' m noting very different results on my data when I use mean thickness or ICV as nuisance factor than no factor. I'm confuse on this topic, could you advise the best way, please? Thanks, Stefano

Re: [Freesurfer] cortical thickness normalization

2013-04-04 Thread Michael Harms
If you're studying thickness, I'm a fan of using mean cortical thickness as the covariate (since thickness is what you're studying). I've posted on this in the past. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the

[Freesurfer] Permutation doubts

2013-04-04 Thread Gabriel Gonzalez Escamilla
Dear Freesurfer experts,I'm having troubles when setting a permutation test, I'm making  group comparisons, but I'm introducing the Age, and cortical thickness as niusance variables (as previously recommended).It seems that permutations only work for orthogonal matrices, does this means that I

[Freesurfer] R: Re: cortical thickness normalization

2013-04-04 Thread stdp82
Thank you very much, Michael! I have just an other important question, please. I'm performing cortical thickness analysis on three groups. One of this is a control group and I'm using it as support because I'm interested only to difference between the two groups of disease. These are my

[Freesurfer] mri_robust_register to obtain jacobian

2013-04-04 Thread Jayachandra Raghava
Hello All, I am trying to use mri_robust_register to compute the symmetric rigid registration for inverse consistency. Is there a way to output the inverse consistent jacobian for the same registration? Thank you, Jay ___ Freesurfer mailing list

[Freesurfer] stats question

2013-04-04 Thread j janssen
Hi, i read the following in a paper and would like to do the same: At each vertex in each hemisphere, the proportion of total variance in cortical thickness (CT) accounted for by 2 linear regression models was compared: One that did not include an age-by-group interaction term, Model 1: [CT =

Re: [Freesurfer] mri_robust_register to obtain jacobian

2013-04-04 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Jay for the rigid case the jacobian is always the same. cheers Bruce On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Jayachandra Raghava wrote: Hello All, I am trying to use mri_robust_register to compute the symmetric rigid registration for inverse consistency. Is there a way to output the inverse consistent

Re: [Freesurfer] Problems with freesurfer after an upgrade to fedora 18

2013-04-04 Thread Marcos Martins da Silva
Hi, I can confirm the problem with Fedora 18 is that former glibc version would accept unsupported salt values, but newer versions of the library have become stricter. More details at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905638 I can also say you can run tkmedit, tksurfer and freeview if

Re: [Freesurfer] Fwd: Error with experimental design using FSGD

2013-04-04 Thread Douglas N Greve
Hi Joshua, you should start by not coding gender and handedness as continuous variables. In doing this, you are saying that you expect right handers to have 2x the thickness as left handers (or females to have 2x the thickness as males). You need 8 classes. If your voxel variable is discrete,

Re: [Freesurfer] Permutation doubts

2013-04-04 Thread Douglas N Greve
Correct, you cannot do a permutation test with continuous variables (or with any non-orthogonal design matrix). If you use the --perm-force, it will do the permutation test as normal (by randomly swapping the rows), but technically the test is not legal. Having said that, I suspect that LOTS

Re: [Freesurfer] stats question

2013-04-04 Thread Douglas N Greve
What do you want to do exactly? Test whether adding the age*group interaction is significant? If so, then you can just run model2 with a contrast looking at that term (or those terms). BTW, it would seem that the model they describe would be ill-conditioned because age*b2 and group*age*b3

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: cortical thickness normalization

2013-04-04 Thread Michael Harms
Hi, Sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking. -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D. --- Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Box 8134 660 South Euclid Ave.

Re: [Freesurfer] Projection of markers from the scalp to cortical surfaces

2013-04-04 Thread Eleonora Maggioni
Yes, I meant that the output labels were much less than the input ones and I would not expect this, but their position was correct. I will try to figure out if I did something wrong. Thank you! Eleonora 2013/4/4 Douglas Greve gr...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu When you say it does not work, what do

Re: [Freesurfer] Permutation doubts

2013-04-04 Thread MCLAREN, Donald
An alternative approach would be to use bootstrapping to determine the significance as was done by Gross et al. 2012. *Cortical signatures of cognition and their relationship to Alzheimer's disease.* Best Regards, Donald McLaren = D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of

Re: [Freesurfer] Permutation doubts

2013-04-04 Thread Michael Harms
Hi Doug, There are approaches/methods available for permutation testing with non-orthogonal design matrices -- see for example the documentation for FSL's randomise and the references cited therein. cheers, -MH -- Michael Harms, Ph.D.

Re: [Freesurfer] Permutation doubts

2013-04-04 Thread Douglas N Greve
Yes, I know, I just have not implemented them:). doug On 04/04/2013 12:47 PM, Michael Harms wrote: Hi Doug, There are approaches/methods available for permutation testing with non-orthogonal design matrices -- see for example the documentation for FSL's randomise and the references cited

[Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: cortical thickness normalization

2013-04-04 Thread stdp82
I'm sorry. I'm performing the cortical thickness analysis on three groups (2 pathological groups and 1 control group). I'm interested mainly to the differences between the two groups of disease. These are my questions: 1- Is qdec a good option for my study design or I should use other glm option

Re: [Freesurfer] R: Re: R: Re: cortical thickness normalization

2013-04-04 Thread Michael Harms
1) If you are ONLY interested in the difference between the 2 pathological groups, then you can include just those two. If you are also interested in comparing either of those with control, then I'd personally opt for a single model that includes all 3 groups, in which you investigate the

[Freesurfer] faster wfile reading in matlab

2013-04-04 Thread Keith Jamison
I noticed it was taking 6-7 seconds to read in a wfile (scalar surface overlay) into matlab using fast_read_wfile.m. In case anybody else finds this annoying, here's a faster alternative that produces identical output: in fast_read_wfile.m, replace everything after the first fread line with:

[Freesurfer] Checking raw dicom files

2013-04-04 Thread qtnguyen
Dear Freesurfer experts, After I ran the functional to structural registration using the bbregister command, it looks like the dorsal part of the brain for this participant is cut off in the BOLD images. When we ran the scan, we made sure that the slice prescription covered the entire brain. We

Re: [Freesurfer] Checking raw dicom files

2013-04-04 Thread dgw
Did you compare the number of slices to that of your sequence? I have had issues when overzealously pulling data off of bourget (that is before the files have completed being sent). A simple re-conversion to mgz (or whatever format you prefer) has fixed this when waiting a bit longer till bourget

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula the inverse of TBSS results

2013-04-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
Hm, it doesn't sound like a failure in the tract reconstruction then. What areas does TBSS give you differences in? Is it in the area of the same tracts? On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Sean Hatton wrote: Hi Anastasia, An independent T-test on the aseg.stats WM-Hypointensties (SegId 77) showed that

Re: [Freesurfer] Checking raw dicom files

2013-04-04 Thread qtnguyen
Dear Bruce, Thank you for your response. I just looked at the f.nii file using fslview and it looks like the top is cut off. Trang what are you visualizing it in? If you just look at it without the registration does it look ok? On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, qtngu...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Dear

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula the inverse of TBSS results

2013-04-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
The increase in FA in patients is strange indeed. Are there any outliers in the tract averages? (Sorry if you've already mentioned this.) There are definitely situations in which TBSS and tracula would give you different results, since tracula gives you average FA in a large bundle, whereas

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula the inverse of TBSS results

2013-04-04 Thread Sean Hatton
There are no extreme outliers (only 3 moderate outliers). Regarding the position, is that the FA center measures? Anastasia Yendiki ayend...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: The increase in FA in patients is strange indeed. Are there any outliers in the tract averages? (Sorry if you've already

Re: [Freesurfer] Tracula the inverse of TBSS results

2013-04-04 Thread Anastasia Yendiki
It's the pathstats.byvoxel.txt file. On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Sean Hatton wrote: There are no extreme outliers (only 3 moderate outliers). Regarding the position, is that the FA center measures? Anastasia Yendiki ayend...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: The increase in FA in patients is strange

[Freesurfer] Cannot login to CVS repo

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Roat
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonym...@fsvm.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu:/usr/fscvsroot login Logging in to :pserver:anonym...@fsvm.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu:2401/usr/fscvsroot CVS password: [hidden] cvs [login aborted]: connect to fsvm.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu(155.52.242.23):2401 failed: Connection timed out Is this a known